Harshaw, Margaret (1909–1997)

US mezzo-soprano, later soprano. She studied at Juilliard in New York, and made her debut at the Metropolitan Opera House in 1942; after singing Senta there in 1950 she turned to the soprano repertory and succeeded Helen Traubel as Isolde, Kundry, and Brünnhilde. She performed at Glyndebourne in 1955 as Donna Anna and at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, 1953–60, as Brünnhilde. She left the Metropolitan Opera House in 1963 and taught at Bloomington University from 1962. In 1970 she sang Brünnhilde at Bloomington.